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I just switched to gigabit. Not even my 200€ router (ubiquity ER-4) would be able to handle 10.

Though that's a nice problem to have

I'm curious if anyone knows of a good option for symmetric 10Gbps at home. Only thing I can think of is a Mikrotik CRS305-1G-4S+IN 10Gb switch and a PC with a NIC with two 10Gb SFP+ ports to handle NAT, DHCP etc.

The ER-8-XG router would be able to handle that easily... and it costs only $1800!

https://www.ui.com/edgemax/comparison/

Running PFSense on a device with an Intel 10Gbit NIC performs incredibly well and is certainly very affordable especially if you buy the NIC second hand

According to this (written ~15 days ago), Mellanox ethernet support is being added and should be available in PfSense snapshots:

https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/7537

Mellanox cards are very cheap 2nd hand on Ebay, and are very good quality hardware. Just don't buy them new. :)

eg:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=mellanox+conn...

I’m on 100Mbit Chorus fibre, with the option to go to 1Gbit.

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